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Working with Images, Audio, and other Assets

In this chapter, we will cover:

Downloading media content on the web
Parsing a URL with urllib to get the filename
Determining type of content for a URL
Determining a file extension from a content type
Downloading and saving images to the local file system
Downloading and saving images to S3
Generating thumbnails for images
Taking website screenshots with Selenium
Taking a website screenshot with an external service
Performing OCR on images with pytessaract
Creating a Video Thumbnail
Ripping an MP4 video to an MP3

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